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I'm not from a generation of kids that grew up on a Mac.

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Paula Scher
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 6
Designer
Graphic Designer
Painter
Teacher
Washington
District of Columbia
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Stefan Sagmeister says that nobody innovates past forty-five, but I think he's wrong. I want to keep doing it.
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If I get up every day with the optimism that I have the capacity for growth, then that’s success for me.
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Be culturally literate, because if you don't have any understanding of the world you live in and the culture you live in, you're not going to express anything to anybody else.
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As a painter I make up projects for myself to express myself. And there's no client, there's no direction.
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Whatever you design[/make/build], use it to raise the expectations of what can be achieved
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All the little risks I took were sort of like all the apartments I had moved into: I was finding the right spot.
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My work is play. And I play when I design. I even looked it up in the dictionary, to make sure that I actually do that, and the definition of “play,” number one, was “engaging in a childlike activity or endeavor,” and number two was “gambling.” And I realize I do both when I’m designing.
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I get to work on things I've never done before and I get better at it, and I can do things that are innovative. Which I've done in my fifties, and want to continue to do through my sixties.
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Design really can be anything.
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Creativity has to do with what came before you immediately, not what came before you a long time ago.
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Great design is serious, not solemn
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What makes me say wow continually changes. It changes based on what I know.
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It could be that going to work is better than being home. But you should never think of days as the weekend. It should all be the same, it should all be stuff you want to do. And when it isn't then you have to change it, and you have to think about how you change it.
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I do different things. I'm a designer. I'm a painter.
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When I don't know all the rules I'm just wild.
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The work needs to get out of your head and on to the table, and it needs to be done from the heart.
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You need to be able to ride past the technology by understanding what it can do, who you are, and where you want to take it. You don't want technology to lead you you want to lead it, but it's very hard to do that when you're in the middle of it.
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You can't say there shouldn't be marketing and (that) marketing is a bad thing.
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Marketing is not inherently bad. That's just dumb. That's said by somebody that isn't doing enough work.
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